Sentence examples similar to evident pretense from inspiring English sources

The show's winking, playful distance from real life is the key to its success, a distance evident in its comical pretense that love at first sight and happily ever after do exist -- if only you can find the right television producer to hand them to you.

This pretense evidences a mechanism of theory of mind working.

(The show's melodramatic tag line describing the rose ceremony asks, "Who will be sent home broken-hearted?") The pretense is most evident and most ludicrous in the doublespeak meant to provide a gloss of feminist respectability.

Yet he offered not even a pretense of resistance to the biggest Democratic interest group: teachers unions--even though it is evident that what's driving their opposition to this program is not principle but naked self-interest.

No pretense".

No Pretense.

Just no pretense".

Their strength is pretense.

Others offered no such pretense.

She was allergic to pretense.

No pretense of having tickets.